A Floral Winter The Preface To This Christmas, Whatever...
of weather Shay ensue, was unusually rich in both flower and berry. I picked the first blossom of the lovely and, in appearance, most delicate iris stylosa on December 9th. The......
Fish And Floods
I see that a naturalist's query has been put forth on the subject of trout and other fish left stranded by floods. Now in the parish register of a Huntingdonshire church is......
Country Life
THOSE who adorn their Christmas with mistletoe (viscum) may be advised to look a little way into the botany of this queer shrub, which is unique in habit, though there are a......
The Blot In The Scutcheon
slit.-1 see in the Spectator of December 9th, in the correspondence columns, the heading " The Blot in the Scutcheon." I quite realise that scutcheon " is a shortened form of......
"the Oppettator," December 22 , 1849 The Prince Of Wales Has
had an escape. The Globe quotes the narra- I ftive from the Bucks Herald of Saturday. " A few days ago His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, was per- mitted to accompany his......
Canterbury Or York ?
Sic —Surely your reviewer has slipped up in his comments on Dean Inge's Diary in attributing the remark about clerical moustaches to George V. It was made, I think, by Edward......
Portrait Of The Blot
f,sift,—May I add to your probably voluminous correspondence on "The Dlot in the Scutcheon "? As another English exile I, like Mr. Gresham, 'derive much pleasure from my......
In The Garden Most Of Us Like To Grow A
certain number of wild flowers in our gardens ; and these should include the so-called foetid iris, to be found in mass on the dunes of north Devon among many other places. It......
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